The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-02-16
Notes and Opinions.

SMITH M. WEED does not believe
that Cleveland will be a candidate for
reelection.
BEFORE he was President Mr.. Cleve-
land held that it was wrong to re-elect
an incumbent of that office.
SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY MAN
MING rendered his resignation of that
office to the President on Monday.
THE official report shows that the
Rhode Island prohibitory law has thus
far worked with gratifying success.
IT is said that the area of winter
wheat is decreasing and the area of
spring wheat increasing in the United
States.
A CANVASS of the New Jersey legis-
lature shows that most democrats prefer
Hill and the republicans Blaine for
president.
THE Pennsylvania legislature is con-
sidering a bill to make an agreement
by two-thirds of jury sufficient to de-
eide cause.
THE Canadian war-cloud presents
nothing more ominous in appearance
than small gauzy patch of mackerel
sky.-Cincinnat Gazette.
A BILL has been introduced in the
Maine legislature to change the time of
holding the gubernatorial election from
September to November.
A NEW YORK dealer in oleomarga-
rine has failed. This is a very en-
couraging indication of the popular
determination to boycott the stuff.
WAR-CLOUDs" are so thick and con-
slant in Europe we fear there will be a
failure of the crops for the want of sun
shine.-Martha's Vineyard Herald.
Mr.. PARNELL's amendment to the
Queens speech, virtually proposing the
policy of home-rule for Ireland, was de-
feated in the house of commons
352 to 246.
COLONEL JOHN RUDD, noted dem
ocratic politician of Missouri, doesn't
think that Cleveland stands any show
of obtaining a denomination, much less
a reelection.
AT the convention in New York last
week of the American Agricultural
and Dairy Association o. M. Tinkham
of North Pomfret was chosen vice
president from Vermont.
If the reports of the ravages of chol-
era in South America approximate the
truth, the people of this country may
as well prepare themselves for vigorous
work in barring the contagion from the
United States.
AND now it is said that the ghost of
Stonewall Jackson is roaming about
Virginia. We have feared for a long
time that some of these so-called war
articles would bring about some such
sult.-Boston Traveller.
A Boston man, Albert r. Murdoch,
offers to pay the inventor five hundred
dollars when some efficient mode of
heating cars without stoves is put in
use on any railroad and an order is
given to fit twenty-five cars with it.
"THE Montpelier Argus and Patriot
shames illustrated daily journalism, and
in its weekly of ample size presents the
best cuts of the White River disaster
that have been published. Manchester
Union. Perhaps the Union is not aware
that the same cuts had their first airing
in the Boston Globe.
IN regard to the reports that Presi-
dent Cleveland contemplated visiting
the Montreal carnival, correspondent
of the Rutland Herald calls attention to
fact which seems not to be very gen.
orally known, that the President of the
United States is forbidden by the Con-
sttution to leave the country during
his term of office.
EX-CoLLECTOR ROBERTSON, who has
vast power in the republican party OF
New York, said, Friday: "Mr. Blaine
will surely be nominated and elected
for president in 1888. There will be
fewer republicans who will vote against
him, and many more democrats will
vote for him than during the last presi-
dental campaign"
THE Springfield Republican has again
demonstrated its inexcusable ignorance
of Vermont matters by stating in an
editorial that "the Vermont Central
railroad has only old wooden bridges of
the class of that which was burned
down." On the contrary, many of the
wooden bridges on this road are COM
paratively new and strong structures,
while most of the new bridges are of
iron.
The Boston Globe publishes the pres
idential preferences of two hundred
two members of the Massachusetts,